William Archer b. 16 May 1820

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Painter)
Although best-known as an architect, William Archer was also a talented botanical artist. He assisted Dr Joseph Hooker at Kew Gardens with the 'Florae Tasmaniae' when he and his family were living in England in 1856-1858.

Citations

  • Archer, W. (1864), 'P& P Royal Society Tasmania’.

  • Lennard, B. (1980), 'William Archer (1820 1874)’, Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association vol. 27, no. 3, September.

  • (1966), 'William Archer’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vols 1, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1972), 'Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1980).

  • Robertson, E.G. (1964), 'Early Houses of Northern Tasmania’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Dixson, W. (1923), 'Notes on Australian artists’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society vol. 9, iss.2 & 7.

  • 'Archer Papers’, University of Tasmania Archives.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

  • (1846), Launceston Examiner, 12-02.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870